Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood (31 May 1930-) was Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California from 8 April 1986 to January 1988, serving as an independent conservative candidate. Eastwood was famous for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s and for his other "tough guy" roles.

Biography
Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California on 31 May 1930, and he was drafted into the US Army during the Korean War; he served as a lifeguard at Ford Ord in northern California, and did not see any action. His acting career began in 1954, and he achieved success in the Western TV series Rawhide before appearing in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films during the 1960s and the Dirty Harry cop films of the 1970s and the 1980s. He also became a director, directing several popular films.

Eastwood was involved with the Republican Party until 1974, was independent from 1974 to 1997, and a member of the US Libertarian Party from after 1997. Eastwood voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972, and he saw himself as a "moderate" and a "libertarian", opposing the United States' involvement in the Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan War, and Iraq War. Eastwood was a liberal on civil rights issues, supported a woman's right to choose an abortion, and endorsed same-sex marriage; he claimed that he supported social liberalism and fiscal conservatism. Eastwood supported John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, and he compared Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to the bumbling comedians Abbot and Costello.